benumb

benumb englannista suomeksi

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benumb englanniksi

1. To make numb, as by cold or anesthetic.

2. (RQ:Foxe Actes and Monuments) the sayd Phillip (..) in the same his pilgrimage was stricken with such colde, that he fell into a palsey, and was benumbed of the right side of his body.

3. (RQ:Defoe Robinson Crusoe) the Cold was insufferable; nor indeed was it more painful than it was surprising, to come but ten Days before out of the old Castile where the Weather was not only warm but very hot, and immediately to feel a Wind from the ''Pyrenean'' Mountains, so very keen, so severely cold, as to be intollerable, and to endanger benumbing and perishing of our Fingers and Toes.

4. (RQ:Anne Bronte Agnes Grey)

5. To deaden, dull (the mind, faculties, etc.).

6. (RQ:Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida) If this lawOf nature be corrupted through affection,And that great minds, of partial indulgenceTo their benumbed wills, resist the same,There is a law in each well-order’d nationTo curb those raging appetites that areMost disobedient and refractory.

7. (RQ:Richardson Pamela)

8. (RQ:Eliot Daniel Deronda)

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